If the Brakes Don't Stop It ...
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Originally Posted by
gmwillys
Invest the funds and buy all brake parts new.
I second that notion. I never knew that the '48 could stop so well until I did the restoration and redid the brakes - and I've been driving it for over 60 years.
Folks spend a lot of time to get their Jeep to run and look good, but there are times where there is a temptation to cut corners on brakes. You can't see the corrosion in the brake lines. The pitted wheel cylinders leak, just a little but they never get better. Brake drums may have been turned to their limit and then a bit more.
Remember that phone commercial about things being "Good Enough"; "If the brakes don't stop it, something else will"? Not a good situation.